HIS404H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Concrete Category, Big Bang, Plausible Deniability
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Fairly early, you have a decision to get militarily involved in a country with reagan. You can debate whether this is in the same category as some of the other events we"ve spoken about given the scale of the involvements, its formally being a. There are other developments in the period that suggest developments of the potential relevance of talking about covert ops as decisions to go to war, in which covert ops become acts of war. Iran-contra is one of the prime examples of this. You are trying to defeat the enemy or harm the perceived enemy without going as far as what we consider full- edged war. The irony is that covert ops are not really covert, in many cases. Reagan and the decision to go to lebanon. He wanted to reassert himself after the failure of vietnam.
